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Audacity: Repair waveforms with the Draw tool

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Demo summary

The demonstration shows how to zoom into individual audio samples and use the Draw tool to manually reshape the waveform to remove clicks.

Step-by-step

  1. Enable the Draw tool
  2. Zoom in on the audio clip until individual samples are visible
  3. Click and drag to reshape the waveform

Options

  • Hold CTRL to move one sample at a time
  • Hold ALT to smooth the waveform

Watch out for

  • You must zoom in enough to show individual samples for the Draw tool to function

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